In 2022, the area of forests increased by 0.1% compared to the previous year. The regenerated surface increased by 16.7% in 2022 compared to 2021.

The national forest fund on December 31, 2022 registered an increase of approximately 0.1%. This increase is mainly due to the redevelopment of wooded pastures and the introduction of degraded land and unforested land into the forest fund, determined to be forested under the terms of the law (Law no. 133/2015 amending and supplementing Law no. 46/2008 - Code Forestry).

The area of forests represents 97.6% of the national forest fund. The volume of harvested wood increased by 1.2% in 2022 compared to 2021.

The distribution of the forest fund by development regions indicates a significant concentration of it in the CENTRAL (19.2% of the total forest fund) and NORTH-EAST (18.2%) development regions, followed by the WEST development regions ( 16.2%), NORTH-WEST (15.3%), SOUTH-WEST-OLTENIA (12.3%), SOUTHMUNTENIA (10.0%), SOUTH-EAST (8.4%) and BUCHAREST-ILFOV (0.4%).

The largest volume of timber was harvested in the NORTH-EAST development region (25.9% of the total volume of timber harvested), followed by the CENTRAL development region (24.0%) and in a smaller proportion of development regions NORTH-WEST (12.9%), WEST (11.9%), SOUTH-MUNTENIA (9.6%), SOUTH-WEST OLTENIA (8.2%), SOUTH-EAST (7.1% ) and BUCHAREST-ILFOV (0.4%).